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About thechickenmoo

Please forgive me if I'm not reading those posts right, but I don't think they answer my question in any way. I've already done vanilla setups in the past on the other board, and that's not really my issue. There is NO support for the Radeo HD 6900 series in MAC OS, this is my attempt at a work around using an older card.

So essentially, after many years I finally got enough new parts to build a new PC with a Quad Core CPU. I previously had a Core 2 Duo w/ a MSI 975x Platinum Power-Up Edition Board that I had successfully installed 10.4, 10.5,10.6, and 10.8. While using another hard drive to run windows.
Now I have:
ASUS Sabertooth P67 (rev 3.1)
Core i5 3570k
AMD Radeon HD 6970
I've come to learn that the Radeon HD 6790 is essentially not compatible with any Mac OS, which I can learn to live with. I was at least able to install a distro of Mavericks and boot into safe mode for now.
My random thought was this.. I have an older Radeon HD 4670 now laying around without a home. Could I put both in the PC and then just disable the card depending on the OS? IE. Use the newer card in windows 8 or Windows 7 on the one hard drive, and then run Mac OS and have it disable the newer incompatible card?
I tried plugging it in for kicks and giggles and was at least still able to boot in safe mode, but I don't see an easy way of disabling the problematic card short of removing it every time i want to use Mac Os which doesn't really sound great long term.
Any thoughts or suggestions? I plan on getting rid of the distro and installing as vanilla as possible again If i can find some sort of solution for the graphics card.
The only posts I found for disabling a graphics chip were from mac pro owners with the lemon units.

So I've had a Leopard Machine running for a year or two now without too much issue. I recently (in the last few months) got Lion running Near Perfectly (have to leave my usb wifi adapter unplugged during boot) and figured after it being "stable" for this long while it should be ok to migrate on over to using it as my main partition.
I copied most everything manually (Pictures/Contacts/Media etc.) but opted to use the migration assistant just for the apps. everything went well (or so it seemed) and i continued using the machine for a few hours. Shut down as normal and the next morning I couldn't get logged in to the Lion Partition.
The machine Boots gets as far as showing my background and Sometimes even the menubar will appear. Then i get the magical beach ball of death. Spinning cursor and that is it. I can hear some disk activity on and off, but nothing responds. Eventually i had to turn off the machine. I checked the log files from the Leopard partition and found the strange errors below.
Dec 17 20:24:39 Jordans-Mac-Pro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[2059] (com.apple.ATSServer): The following job tried to hijack the service "com.apple.FontObjectsServer" from this job: com.apple.fontd
Dec 17 20:24:39 Jordans-Mac-Pro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[2059] (com.apple.fontd[2094]): Exited with code: 76
Dec 17 20:24:39 Jordans-Mac-Pro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[2059] (com.apple.fontd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
Dec 17 20:24:49 Jordans-Mac-Pro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[2059] (com.apple.ATSServer): The following job tried to hijack the service "com.apple.FontObjectsServer" from this job: com.apple.fontd
Dec 17 20:24:49 Jordans-Mac-Pro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[2059] (com.apple.fontd[2104]): Exited with code: 76
Dec 17 20:24:49 Jordans-Mac-Pro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[2059] (com.apple.fontd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
Dec 17 20:24:59 Jordans-Mac-Pro com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[2059] (com.apple.ATSServer): The following job tried to hijack the service "com.apple.FontObjectsServer" from this job: com.apple.fontd
This is repeated over and over in the log file never varying. So i think I've found the "hang" but I'm not sure what to do to fix the error. I tried booting in safe mode, no go.
I've cleared the font caches since that what the errors seemed to refer me to. I tried creating a new user (Single User Mode still works of course) to see if maybe there was a bad font in the user folder. Same result with the other user profile. Any ideas here? Again everything was running fine so I have to believe that migration assistant caused the fault. Perhaps it copied over some bad fonts? I checked the time machine backup from before and my /Library/fonts and /system/library/fonts both seemed to be fine.
My System:
Intel Core2Duo 2.21 GHz
MSI 975x Platinum Power-Up Edition
2GB Ram
Radeon HD 4870
Operating Systems Available on Machine:
Leopard (10.5.8)
Lion (10.7.2)
Windows 7
Windows Vista

Sorry If im repeat posting. I've been googling and searching the forums for a few days, but i might just be blind (which i often am)
My specs:
MSI 975x Platinum edition Mobo.
Intel Core2 Duo CPU
HD Ati Radeon 2600 graphics Card
abit AirPace 802.11b/g PCI Express Mini Card
I installed iATKOS ir2 with little or no problems. I had a slight problem booting my first time because i didn't have usb keyboard which i have now remedied, but i can only get it to boot into safe mode. In safe mode it works no problem, but when trying to boot regular (verbose) it stops at
"localhost DirectoryService[31]: Launched version 5.0 (v514)"
or sometimes it gets one more line to
"localhost DirectoryService[31]: WARNING - dstouch: file was asked to be opened </Library/Preferences/DirectoryService/ .DSIsRunning>: (File Exists)"
Any Idea's? I tried removing my abit AirPace PCI Express Mini Card, because i figured that was one thing that didn't boot with safe mode.. Nada. Any other idea's? I can't seem to think what else i could change.
Thanks for any and all help.